diff --git a/api/Dockerfile b/api/Dockerfile
index 7a0ac92..a270b67 100644
--- a/api/Dockerfile
+++ b/api/Dockerfile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ FROM python:3.12-slim AS development
 WORKDIR /app
 COPY pyproject.toml .
 COPY src/ src/
+COPY alembic.ini .
+COPY alembic/ alembic/
 # Install directly into system Python — no venv, so uvicorn's multiprocessing.spawn
 # subprocess inherits the same interpreter and can always find rehearsalhub
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -e "."
diff --git a/api/alembic.ini b/api/alembic.ini
index 8c88300..b424845 100644
--- a/api/alembic.ini
+++ b/api/alembic.ini
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [alembic]
 script_location = alembic
 prepend_sys_path = .
-sqlalchemy.url = postgresql+asyncpg://rh_user:change_me@localhost:5432/rehearsalhub
+sqlalchemy.url = postgresql+asyncpg://rh_user:changeme_password_123@db:5432/rehearsalhub
 
 [loggers]
 keys = root,sqlalchemy,alembic